2017 Physics Research & Education: Relativity and Gravitation: Contemporary Research and Teaching of Einstein's Physics Gordon Research Conference

这个重要的项目支持参与者参加戈登研究会议（GRC）关于相对论和引力在研究和教育的交叉点。会议的主题是及时的，因为它将利用目前存在的巨大热情，因为2016年2月宣布首次探测到引力波。它也发生在物理学家们正集中精力增加当代概念的数量，这些概念被教授给所有本科生的时候。这次会议的范围是独特的雄心勃勃的，因为教育重点之间的联系，前沿的物理研究，并承诺使当代物理主题在不同机构的本科生广泛访问。它将有超过20位演讲者，他们是引力，相对论，这些主题的教学和/或物理教育研究的领导者。前沿研究的新途径将会发展，因为汇集了在引力和教育交叉领域工作的领先研究人员。GRC为其他探索引力和相对论教育相关问题的人提供了一个机会，通过晚间海报会议和非正式会议为对话做出贡献。全体会议和海报会议确保在会议上代表不同的观点，并确保整个社区在未来的相对论和万有引力教学中有发言权。提高对这些问题的认识，努力开发新的课程，以及学习抽象概念和评估学习的新技术，都有很大的潜力。

This important project supports participants to attend a Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on relativity and gravitation at the intersection of both research and education. The conference topic is timely as it will take advantage of the tremendous enthusiasm that currently exists due to the announcement in February 2016 of the first ever detection of gravitational waves. It also occurs at a time when physicists are placing a concentrated effort on increasing the number of contemporary concepts that is taught to all undergraduates.The scope of this conference is uniquely ambitious due to the connections among the education focus, cutting edge physics research, and a commitment to make contemporary physics topics accessible to a broad spectrum of undergraduate students at diverse institutions. It will have over 20 speakers who are leaders in gravitation, relativity, the teaching of these topics, and/or physics education research. New avenues of cutting edge research will evolve as a result of bringing together leading researchers who work at the intersection of gravitation and education. The GRC provides an opportunity for others exploring issues relating to education in gravitation and relativity to contribute to the dialogue through evening poster sessions and informal. The plenary talks and the poster sessions ensure that a diverse set of perspectives are represented at the conference and that the entire community has a voice in the future teaching of relativity and gravitation. There is great potential for increased awareness of these issues, for new curriculum development efforts, and for new techniques for learning abstract concepts and assessment of learning.